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From the back row of red velvet chairs, the stage looks enormous. If O’Leary was pirouetting with Viktor Plotnikov and Larissa Ponomarenko of the Boston Ballet, she’d be in front of an audience of 3,700 with a 60-piece orchestra playing the strains of the “Nutcracker Suite.” Today, she will tread the boards to take in the entire 4,800 square feet of performance space solo...
...Paya's celebrity is beginning to rival Castro's. During his visit to Cuba last year, ex-President Jimmy Carter hailed Paya in a speech broadcast to every Cuban household. Paya won the European Union's Sakharov Prize for human rights last December. Vaclav Havel, who led the "velvet revolution" that toppled communism in Czechoslovakia, has nominated Paya for the Nobel Peace Prize. Robert De Niro's Tribeca Film Festival last week canceled its screening of Oliver Stone's documentary on Castro, Comandante, and showed instead a film about Paya. All this attention probably keeps him out of jail...
...efforts to draw the spotlight off his own photographs, the retrospective will not let him get away with it. His powerful black-and-white, natural-light photographs - formally rigorous, timeless and often enigmatic - adorn the BNF's vast exhibit space. Cartier-Bresson once wrote that photographers need "a velvet hand and a hawk's eye." Here is the master class...
...WURGEENGEL The red walls and velvet upholstery create a sinful atmosphere. If you're hungry, daily specials can be had from the Gorgonzola Club next door. Dresdener Strasse...
From World's first lyric--"Baby see how I been living, velvet curtains on the windows to/Keep the bright and unforgiving light from shining through"--Williams admits that she's a sucker for the wrong man, and no, she'll probably never learn. But the music, recorded live in a California mansion, acts as a counterweight. "Recording live," says Williams, "just makes everything sound a lot warmer and more buoyant. I like that contrast...